Uncovering ancient landscapes with emerging technologies: integrating complex geospatial and fossil data to explore late Cenozoic environmental change

利用新兴技术揭示古代景观：整合复杂的地理空间和化石数据来探索新生代晚期的环境变化

• 批准号: LP100200486
• 负责人: Prof Michael Archer
• 金额: $ 15.59万
• 依托单位: The University of New South Wales
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Linkage Projects
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2011-02-01 至 2015-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/LP100200486
• 关键词: Uncovering; ancient; landscapes; emerging; technologies

This project aims to use emerging technologies to unravel relationships between prehistoric climate changes and environmental impacts in northern Australia. Given current uncertainty about impacts of contemporary climate change on our biota, it is important to document the outcomes of past climatic changes and, in particular, the globally critical period between 15 and five million years ago that shaped modern Australian environments. Fossil-rich deposits in the Riversleigh World Heritage Area of northern Queensland span this period. Interpretation of their fine-grained record of impact and change will improve our ability to predict and hence better manage impacts of future climate change on our unique national natural heritage.

该项目旨在利用新兴技术来揭示史前气候变化与澳大利亚北部环境影响之间的关系。鉴于目前当代气候变化对我们生物群影响的不确定性，记录过去气候变化的结果非常重要，特别是 15 至 500 万年前塑造现代澳大利亚环境的全球关键时期。昆士兰州北部里弗斯利世界遗产区蕴藏着丰富的化石矿藏，就跨越了这一时期。对影响和变化的细粒度记录的解释将提高我们预测的能力，从而更好地管理未来气候变化对我们独特的国家自然遗产的影响。